"fall over one's feet" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "From the phrase fall over one's feet, meaning stumble.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "falls over one's feet",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "falling over one's feet",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "fell over one's feet",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "fallen over one's feet",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fall<,,fell,fallen> over one's feet"
      },
      "expansion": "fall over one's feet (third-person singular simple present falls over one's feet, present participle falling over one's feet, simple past fell over one's feet, past participle fallen over one's feet)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
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        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "a. 1998, Diana Wynne Jones, \"The Master\", in her own Unexpected Magic: Collected Stories, HarperCollins, →ISBN (2003), page 55,\n\"Show me the rest of the house,\" I said, to distract him. He fell over his feet to oblige."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2001, Elizabeth Peters, He Shall Thunder in the Sky, HarperCollins, page 261",
          "text": "Supposing there is a scrap—wouldn't she wade right in, trying to help us, and wouldn't you fall over your own feet trying so get her out of it?",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2004, Michael Morris, A Place Called Wiregrass, HarperCollins, page 69",
          "text": "\"Luther fell over his feet trying to get away from there. He was so eat up with meanness the snakes wouldn't even touch him.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To hasten."
      ],
      "id": "en-fall_over_one's_feet-en-verb-7zOvXK0q",
      "links": [
        [
          "hasten",
          "hasten"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "fall over one's feet"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "From the phrase fall over one's feet, meaning stumble.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "falls over one's feet",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "falling over one's feet",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "fell over one's feet",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "fallen over one's feet",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fall<,,fell,fallen> over one's feet"
      },
      "expansion": "fall over one's feet (third-person singular simple present falls over one's feet, present participle falling over one's feet, simple past fell over one's feet, past participle fallen over one's feet)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "a. 1998, Diana Wynne Jones, \"The Master\", in her own Unexpected Magic: Collected Stories, HarperCollins, →ISBN (2003), page 55,\n\"Show me the rest of the house,\" I said, to distract him. He fell over his feet to oblige."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2001, Elizabeth Peters, He Shall Thunder in the Sky, HarperCollins, page 261",
          "text": "Supposing there is a scrap—wouldn't she wade right in, trying to help us, and wouldn't you fall over your own feet trying so get her out of it?",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2004, Michael Morris, A Place Called Wiregrass, HarperCollins, page 69",
          "text": "\"Luther fell over his feet trying to get away from there. He was so eat up with meanness the snakes wouldn't even touch him.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To hasten."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "hasten",
          "hasten"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "fall over one's feet"
}